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Thomas the Tank Engine Snow Shoveling Set (2003)
First written July 28, 2024
The Thomas the Tank Engine Snow Shoveling Set (きかんしゃトーマスの雪かきセット) was released for the Thomas Plarail series of toys in December 2003. This set includes Thomas with a clip-on snowplow, a brakevan, and an oval of track with accessories.
Set contents
| Quantity |
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| 3 pieces | Thomas the Tank Engine (looking to the left) with snowplow and brakevan |
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| 1 | R-01 Straight Rail (bluish-white) |
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| 1 | R-02 Half Straight Rail (bluish-white) |
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| 2 | R-03 Curve Rail (bluish-white) |
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| 1 | J-01 Tunnel (snowy variant) |
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| 3 pieces | J-26 Thomas the Tank Engine Funny Scene Set Windmill (snowy variant) |
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| 5 | Snowy trees |
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The Thomas in this set is a slight face variant with his eyes looking off to the left. The brakevan in this set is a nice brown variant with a black roof.
This example was produced in November 2003. Here is the looking-left face variation with a standard Thomas. This was the first of the eyes-looking-to-one-side Thomas variants that appeared in the 2000s and 2010s.
The snowplow is removable but with age the blue plastic used turns green and brittle - I think at this point pretty much all of them are more fragile than when new and may not survive repeated connection and disconnections. This is the same tooling as used with a white paint application for the Talk 'n' Action Thomas in the export Thomas Holiday Set.
The rail in this set is a slightly bluish off-white used as "snowy" rail in the 2000s. The tunnel is a nice snowy variant of the classic tunnel.
The windmill is a white-based snowy variant of the windmill from the J-26 Thomas the Tank Engine Funny Scene Set. Trees have brown trunks and off-white bases.
The premise of this set is very nice, and I like Thomas with his snowplow and just a brakevan, and the accessory selection is nice with plenty of trees and a windmill like seen in some of the early holiday episodes of Thomas the Tank Engine... but the set is still a little small, with basically no other options for arranging the white track. Its not like the color of the track really matters, and there were some other track packs sold with shade of track, but it is not nearly as involved of a set as the 2003 Thomas Holiday Set released in some other countries.
| Set name | Thomas the Tank Engine Snow Shoveling
Set きかんしゃトーマスの雪かきセット |
Release period | 2003-2004, Japan |
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| Notes: | Price | 3400 yen (2004) |